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Those are important distinctions for Hope鈥檚 students, noted Dr. Gerald Griffin, who is provost at Hope and is also a member of the college鈥檚 neuroscience faculty.

鈥淩esearch at Hope, as at colleges and universities across the country, makes important contributions to knowledge across many fields of study,鈥� Griffin said.  鈥淗ere at Hope, though, where we emphasize individual attention, it鈥檚 deliberately conducted in the service of our students鈥� education.  Hope students work collaboratively alongside faculty mentors at a level that at many places doesn鈥檛 happen until graduate school.  Our students, as undergraduates, not only help make discoveries, but gain important experience applying what they learn in the classroom.  It鈥檚 a model that we know changes students鈥� lives.鈥�

鈥淥ur students, as undergraduates, not only help make discoveries, but gain important experience applying what they learn in the classroom. It鈥檚 a model that we know changes students鈥� lives.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; 鈥� Dr. Gerald Griffin, Provost

Released on Feb. 13, the 2025 Research Activity Designations reflect financial support of research, with a total of 544 U.S. colleges and universities grouped within three categories:  Research 1, for institutions that spend at least $50 million for research annually and award 70 or more research doctorates each year; Research 2, for institutions that spend at least $5 million for research annually and award 20 or more research doctorates each year; and Research Colleges and Universities, which are non-R1 or R2 institutions that spend more than $2.5 million on research annually.

Hope is one of , and one of only 28 undergraduate-only schools in the group 鈥� the latter of which range from Amherst in the east, to Morehouse in the south, to Harvey Mudd in the west, and include the Air Force, Army and Naval military academies.

The colleges and universities are not ranked within the categories, which are based on data from 2019 and 2020, and the institutions鈥� funding totals aren鈥檛 included in the data.  Research at Hope includes extensive external support, including 50 grants totaling more than $9.8 million during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.  Griffin noted that Hope鈥檚 success rate in obtaining grants is 67%, compared to the national average of approximately 20-30%.

A total of 17 colleges and universities in Michigan are on the lists, four as R1s, 5 as R2s, and eight as Research Colleges and Universities.

The Research 1 institutions in the state are:  Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Wayne State University.

The Research 2 institutions in the state are: Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, Oakland University, the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Western Michigan University.

In addition to Hope, the state鈥檚 Research Colleges and Universities are:  Calvin University, Grand Valley State University, Lake Superior State University, Lawrence Technological University, Saginaw Valley State University, University of Detroit Mercy, and Western Michigan University鈥檚 Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine.  Of the Michigan schools in the category, only Hope and Lake Superior State University serve undergraduate students exclusively.

The three categories comprise a new classification system by the ACE and Carnegie Foundation, with Research Colleges and Universities a new designation for schools that weren鈥檛 recognized under the previous model.  describes it as 鈥渁n updated methodology intended to better account for and reflect the multifaceted, wide-ranging research landscape of higher education institutions in America.鈥�

Hundreds of Hope students engage in research with faculty mentors part-time during the school year and full-time for several weeks each summer.  They regularly present their research at regional and national conferences and publish their research as co-authors with their faculty mentors.

Research has a long and storied history at Hope.  More than 100 years ago, biologist Dr. Samuel O. Mast designed research laboratory space for the college鈥檚 Van Raalte Hall, which opened in 1903.  The late Dr. Gerrit Van Zyl, who taught chemistry at the college from 1923 to 1964, is widely recognized for developing research-based learning at Hope in its modern sense.

Hope has received national recognition in a variety of ways through the years for its success in teaching through collaborative faculty-student research, and for the high quality of the research itself.  As a current example, the most recent Best Colleges guide published by U.S. News & World Report ranks Hope 31st nationwide among all of the country鈥檚 4,000 degree-granting postsecondary institutions for student research experiences.

Among other acclaim historically, in 1994 Project Kaleidoscope named the program in the natural applied sciences a 鈥淲hole Program That Works鈥� 鈥� a model for other institutions to emulate, and in 1998 Hope was one of only 10 liberal arts institutions in the nation to be recognized for innovation and excellence in science instruction by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with an 鈥淎ward for the Integration of Research and Education鈥� (AIRE).   Based on the college鈥檚 proven history of excellence, the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) chose Hope to present the national webinar 鈥淭ransformational Learning through Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance鈥� in April 2011. In 2017, Hope was one of only three colleges or universities nationwide to receive a Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA) from CUR, and one of only nine to have received the recognition since the award was established in 2015.

Hope will host its annual A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance, during which hundreds of students will present their research and creative work via poster displays and informal question-and-answer interaction with visitors, on Friday, April 11, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse.